> Surely there is a space for minimalist office suites and email clients, written starting with a browser as a jumping off point, rather than a compiler? As fa

> Surely there is a space for minimalist office suites and email clients, written starting with a browser as a jumping off point, rather than a compiler? As far as email clients go, Thunderbird is literally what you are suggesting. Thunderbird is essentially the Firefox web browser, with all of the browser front-end code stripped off, and an email client dropped in its place.